21 August 2011

Set your TiVos. The XIII World Athletics Championships will be held next week in Daegu, South Korea from August 27th to September 4th. Cuba has announced its sporno-tastic and testosterone heavy roster will be lead by R20 faves and Olympic medalists Leonel Suarez and Dayron Robles, according to Radio Havana and Guantanamo TV.

Along Suarez, his teammate Yordanis Garcia, javelin and runner-up in the previous event Guillermo Martínez, Victor Moya in high jump, Carlos Veliz, Misleydis Gonzalez and Mailin Vargas in shot put, Yipsi Moreno in hammer, and Yanet Cruz in javelin will also depart this week to the Korean appointment. Yoandri Betanzos ....among others, complete the official roster.

Dayron Robles won gold in the 110m hurdles at the Beijing Olympics. Robles' Olympic-sized bulge became quite the conversation topic across the internets. More recently: Robles beat hurdles super hotness David Oliver on August 5 in London. Robles, Oliver and China's Liu Xiang are expected to fight it out for the gold in Daegu.

10 March 2009

Viva Cuba! Cuba's top decathletes post record scores in the decathlon at the Aurelio Janet Memorial
over the weekend in Havana. The dynamic duo are Beijing Olympic bronze medalist Leonel Suarez and 2007 Pan American
Games runner-up Yordanis Garcia. Twenty-one--year-old Leonel Suarez was captured by Outsports photographers last spring and definitely looks fit in all the right places.

IAAF reports, "Both posted the highest totals ever for a Decathlon in Cuba as Suarez
scored 8415 points and Garcia a personal best of 8365 points. Suarez set the national Heptathlon indoor record with 5959 points in
early February this year, and Garcia came close with 5905 two weeks
later in Seville."